Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-05-20
donment of all her engagements for the
reat of tho ua,.on 2 D.

We have inst received from the Beeth-
oven Piano Organ Co., of Washington,
New Jersey, one of their celebrated
Paris Organs, an instrument which a
few years ago would have cost at least
$500, but which now costs less thnn
500, freight included. Write for par .
ticulars mentioning this paper.
Mrs. Emerson, wife of Billy Emer-
son, the celebrated minstrel, dropped u
$3.50 gold watch from the cur window
somewhere between here and Winnie
mncca on Wednesday morning. AS we
are greatly in need Of gold witch the
finder will confer u favor by leaving it
at this Office. p r......E
Hugging and kissing is prohibited in
the parks of Baltimore and the police
are notified to arrest nlI purties violut-
ing the ordiauce. No need OF such an
ordinance i'll Elko, for the residents of
this town are all so cold blooded that
they never think of INDUCING in any
such innocent and frivolous umuss-
ments.
A special to the Galveston News from
Austin, Texas, dated the 18th saws
Fifty mounted men are leaving here by
train for McNill, ten miles from here.
near which point q big robbery of a
north bound train is reported. One
passenger is reported to have been shot
in the arm. There seems to be no
doubt of the robbery.
Sam Small told his Minneapolis con.
gegntion that if they paid 81 to hear
Berhhardt they would be damned. The
settlement was not particularly original
A good many men in various cities have
declared that they would be ID if they
paid that price. But when the speech.
lators came down to -, they were OH
hand.
A Chinamnn has been acquitted ct
Red Buff on charge of practicing med
icine without license. There are
oceans Of Caucasian doctors in this State
who ought to be hung for praetiei,ig
with license; and they are the very
first to grumble when anybody dis
patches his victims to the Coroner by
any other route than the "old sehuo ~
= Sacramento Bee.
1Nra 4.
hear OF some bnld-hcaded man in Ore.
gan being sent to his long home 10y par.
ties in search of Peter Olsen. A man
said to resemble him has been Seen in
Portland. If tlnk nun will listen to
SENS bic advice, he will make what nr-
ENGAGEMENTS he considers necessary aud
step out quietly aud kill himself He
will only save those Oil OIseu's tail the
tpoHble.
A number of Kentnckiuns who had
gone long distance to witness hang.
irg' were much engaged when they
found that, owing to the tnrdy cIemency
of the Governor, the show would not
come off, They even went so far rs to
hs ng the Governor in effigy. That kind
of Christian fortitude which does not
question the will Of heaven. however
spiteful its DEGREES may be, is not known
in Kentucky.
The story is told That wealthy West
ern Senator was asked one day to settle
a dispute between two gentlemen about
grnmaar. One OF them stepped ur to
him and said: "Sir, my friend and |
have been having dispute about II
matter of speech. We have agreed to
leave it to the next man we met. Are
you n grummnrianr" "a whnt2" a"ked
Senator Hearst. "a grammnrinn, wus
the repeated inquiry. "No, sir, not by
n Id sight" was the emphatic re-
sponsc. II nm IL Missourian."
Phoebe Record Some people seen
to think that the editor Of couutr,
newspaper ought to be q sort of clown